In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy abruptly quits law school and flees to her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi where she stumbles upon a long-ago murder mystery.
On this year's visit to his great-aunts' farm, a young boy enjoys all that is involved in making plum jam--even the adventure of getting the plums from Farmer Wilson's tree.
A farmer, forced to sell his farm and all his animals during a drought, learns to recreate the past and foretell the future using the hedge that grows in front of his cottage.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
In Indiana in 1909, Callie finds that she must grow up quickly when death and other hardships leave her alone on the family farm with her ailing grandfather Opa.
Feeling crowded and trapped in the farm commune where she has spent most of her life, fifteen-year-old Lake can find no hiding place from everything going wrong with the farm and with her parents.
